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2022 Wake County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wake County, NC went without power for an average of 88.2 hours, a total of 4.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 33rd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wake County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 16, 2022 12:00 | June 20, 2022 07:30 | 3d 19h | 95,005 | 1.1M |
| 2 | September 30, 2022 06:30 | October 4, 2022 03:30 | 3d 21h | 91,342 | 1.5M |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 08:45 | December 26, 2022 04:15 | 2d 19h | 30,905 | 437K |
| 4 | January 16, 2022 13:15 | January 18, 2022 10:30 | 1d 21h | 15,390 | 85K |
| 5 | July 24, 2022 10:45 | July 25, 2022 09:30 | 22h 45m | 15,143 | 31K |
| 6 | May 27, 2022 08:45 | May 29, 2022 06:15 | 1d 21h | 9,024 | 52K |
| 7 | January 2, 2022 09:00 | January 5, 2022 03:45 | 2d 18h | 8,792 | 62K |
| 8 | July 13, 2022 20:45 | July 15, 2022 05:15 | 1d 8h | 8,323 | 41K |
| 9 | May 6, 2022 12:15 | May 8, 2022 16:45 | 2d 4h | 7,619 | 45K |
| 10 | July 6, 2022 08:45 | July 11, 2022 07:15 | 4d 22h | 7,171 | 49K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 273 reached 100+ customers, 94 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Wake County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.93 | 1.5 hrs | 1.23 |
| Town of Apex- (NC) | 2022 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 42 min | 0.54 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Carolina Eastern M P A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wake Forest - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 46,622 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Wake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wake County, NC annual power outage report, 2022, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2022/north-carolina/wake-county